Posted on 06/11/2013 3:43:10 AM PDT by rightwingintelligentsia
REX, Ga. — Police are trying to figure out who knocked over a monument dedicated to an ancestor of first lady Michelle Obama.
“When I saw it, I shed a few tears,” Vicki Smith told Channel 2’s Linda Stouffer.
Smith helped get the monument to Rex. It’s a tribute to Melvinia Shields, the great-great-great grandmother of Obama. Shields was born into slavery in 1844 and later moved to Georgia.
Clayton County Commissioner Sonna Singleton said the monument company will have to lift the heavy stone to check for cracks after someone pushed it off the foundation block.
“It was our little source of pride because here we are in little old Rex, Georgia, and we had ties to the White House, so there's pride in us for that,” Singleton said.
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Boo effin hoo!
I can see it as both ways.
But the obscurity of the event seems to make it less a “staged” provocation and more an act of disgruntled(disenchanted) people.
Meh, more likely a bored teenager.
On a coin next?
You haven’t been paying attention
http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss_2?field-keywords=obama%20coin
Little old Rex, GA, probably has a Democrat city council that voted to put up the statue and the town didn’t support it. Lots of Dems in rural Georgia don’t like the Obamas. Too bad they won’t change their party affiliation.
I moved to where I am now from Rex.
Rex is not a large town but being just south of Atlanta, and with an exit ramp off I-675, a once very nice, scenic, historic cotton mill community is now overflowing with drug dealers and all that goes with it.
Vandalism is just a fact of life in the area.
We can dream too....
I like their clothes. Sometimes I wish that would come back in style.
You pretty much come here to start pissing matches, don’t you.....and your posting history confirms.
Concerning a 170 year old shirt-tail relationship, “It was our little source of pride because here we are in little old Rex, Georgia, and we had ties to the White House, so there’s pride in us for that,”
Free people simply don’t think like this.
******************EXACTLY!
All Americans have ties to the WH
False Flags aka Tawanna’d aka Sharpton’d.
“The FalseFlags (TM) will happen every week until the serfs behave!”
signed, your local FEMA Director
Yup. This is the transparency we were promised. Easy to see through.
The Vandals knocked it over because they thought she was a Visigoth.
The men's styles particularly -- you get to see the legs -- tjey needed tight legs because they were horsemen -- and the nipped in waists and long coattails are so flattering, even to the obese (which fewer were in those days). Also love the male hairstyles -- neat during the day, loose at home. The children's clothes were appealing, too.
The women's styles? Not so much. But anything would be better than today's young girls dressing like ho's and the boys with the baggy pants down below their butts.
tjey = they
I absolutely LOVE the how the men dressed!
The 40’s are my favorite for women.
I saw an opera recently set in 18th-century Italy, but the costumer John Pascoe mixed in elements of the 1940s. It was stunning. I searched all over the net for some really good photos, but this paltry one was the best I could find to give the idea. The actual production was amazing. Lots of leather bustiers and boots, mixed with faux suede skirts that flowed, and 40s hair on the women wearing traditional Italian peasant dress, and sunglasses on 18th c. Italian grandees, etc.
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